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People do not even give a second thought to what goes on at Fukushima after the incident a couple of years ago. The danger of another severe earthquake and tsunami looms large there, even today. Several people are working tirelessly under stressful conditions to deal with the radioactive waste even after the big accident. Another possibility of an earthquake and tsunami hitting the power plant a .... |
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Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has announced that the Fukushima’s plant reactor buildings are getting flooded by groundwater every day. A couple of months ago, they installed extra emergency tanks in Fukushima area near the nuclear plant. Their capacity is so low that the tanks are getting full in a mere ten days’ time as the water is flooding in at an alarming rate of two hundred and ei .... |
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Recent pictures have shown double-headed dandelions growing in Minamisoma as a result of the Fukushima fallout. This is a dangerous mutation scenario.
Minamisoma is a small town on the Coast of Japan, situated about twenty five kilometers north of the collapsed nuclear reactor site of Fukushima Daiichi. Before the terrorising tsunami struck this area on 11th March, 2011, it was surrounded .... |
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Mandatory water restrictions were implemented in 1999 following several back-to-back destructive wild fires that spread throughout Central Florida. The mandate was put in place to conserve water in order to have the resources needed to combat the fires. These restrictions are still in effect today and will be until further notice.
The St. Johns River Water Management District is the governing e .... |
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Spring is in the air. The sun is shining and the scent of new earth and awakened lakes sweeps through the wind, bringing a promise of renewal and growth. In this spirit of planting new seeds, I met with Glenda Forward, the membership coordinator of the St. Anne Road Community Garden in Sudbury, Ontario. I was moved by Glenda’s passion for gardening and her commitment to bringing healthy, organi .... |
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Almost everything we consume on this planet ends up in the ocean; from the food we eat, to the manufactured products we consume, to the energy we produce.
Our use of fossil fuels, our dependence on fertilizers, our demand for more and more land, contribute one way or another to one of the greatest threats facing our ocean today, acidification.
We monitor acidification by testing the .... |
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Srinagar - Lakes in Kashmir, straight away, the Dal Lake comes to the mind. Less known is the Anchar Lake, which is a large lake in Srinagar. Situated amidst scenic surroundings, the Anchar Lake is best enjoyed by tourists in a Shikhara or houseboat. Anchar Lake is habitat for the birds. All this is a thing of the past now. The Anchar Lake is on the verge of extinction at present.
The pollutio .... |
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The storm shown here stretches west to east from Newfoundland to Portugal. Its southern tail (cold front) extends into the Caribbean and the north side of its comma head touches southern Greenland.
Not only is it big, but it’s also super intense – comparable to many category 3 hurricanes. The storm’s central pressure, as analyzed by the Ocean Prediction Center, is 953 mb. Estimated peak .... |
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The environmental groups and activists fighting to reduce pollution need new media to express themselves. They need to reach out to the people and make them aware of the dangers associated with pollution and how it can affect their lives. The anti-pollution activists need to be heard and advertorials can be a great medium through which they can spread their message to the masses.
Advertorials ar .... |
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The environmental groups and activists fighting to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline project need new media to express themselves. They need to reach out to the people and make them aware of the dangers associated with this project. Advertorials can be a great medium through which the activists can spread their message to the masses.
Advertorials are paid news articles that appear in magazines, ne .... |
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How many times has your future stared at you outside an elevator door? Well, it happened to Brad and Rebecca Rabiey, who met outside an elevator at the University of Alberta some 10 years ago as they went to check their grades for a criminology class. She was arriving; he was just about to leave.
“It was one of the best examples of serendipity,” says Rebecca. “We just kind of small-talked .... |
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One of the most important fields of engineering is chemical engineering. This field is part of the everyday lives of most citizens and will be for the foreseeable future. The amount of chemistry and math that is used in the field is staggering. The most important equation can be considered the mass balance.
(1) Min = Mout
The mass balance has many complex form .... |
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In our everyday experiences we control nature. As humans we are responsible for controlling our environment. We are the “whos” that control nature but the question is what controls nature? We are the “whos” that control nature from following the “whats” that naturally controls nature. So, “what” is literally opposing our quest to conquer nature.
In the common experience ran .... |
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The year 2012 was an amazing year in the world of science. Out of countless events which were the greatest scientific events of 2012?
Venus Transit
Although this event did just occur in 2010, the Venus transit this spring will not be witnessed again by a living soul because it will not occur for another 105 years. For more information check out this article: Venus Devours the Su .... |
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In the early hours of Saturday 15th December 2012, high tide brought chaos to Scotland’s east coast. From the Shetland Islands to North Berwick on the English border, the sea and wind battered communities well-used to extreme weather. Tidal forces combined with south-easterly gale-force winds and low pressure atmospheric conditions to whip up what has been described as ‘the perfect storm’, a .... |
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Matthew Will was shooting ducks at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire on 5 October 2012 at 7.30pm. The Ythan estuary is one of Scotland's best sea trout fisheries. Matthew was accompanied there by his trained gun-dog, a black labrador called Fly. When the dog went into the estuary to retrieve a downed duck, a large grey seal pulled him underwater. Both of Fly's hind legs and his ribcage were crush .... |
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Three people, Monsanto, the USDA and WHO, walk into a bar. Wait a minute. Those aren’t people! Yes, they are. At least one of them is. The US Supreme Court declared that corporations are people, so Monsanto at least is a person. The jury is still out on the other two.
Back to the joke. The barman says, “so, what will it be fellows?” USDA .... |
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It should be that a fact is a fact. One look at a political debate will convince you that that is not so. People interpret “facts” to suit their own agendas. It should be that science or scientific study should be the basis of fact. But data can be interpreted according to the wishes of the founders of the study. This is not a good situation and leaves most people in a .... |
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